class ActiveSupport::Duration

Provides accurate date and time measurements using Date#advance and Time#advance, respectively. It mainly supports the methods on Numeric.

1.month.ago       # equivalent to Time.now.advance(months: -1)

Constants

EPOCH

Attributes

parts[RW]
value[RW]

Public Class Methods

parse(iso8601duration) click to toggle source

Creates a new Duration from string formatted according to ISO 8601 Duration.

See ISO 8601 for more information. This method allows negative parts to be present in pattern. If invalid string is provided, it will raise ActiveSupport::Duration::ISO8601Parser::ParsingError.

# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 143
def self.parse(iso8601duration)
  parts = ISO8601Parser.new(iso8601duration).parse!
  new(EPOCH.advance(parts) - EPOCH, parts)
end

Public Instance Methods

+(other) click to toggle source

Adds another Duration or a Numeric to this Duration. Numeric values are treated as seconds.

# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 23
def +(other)
  if Duration === other
    Duration.new(value + other.value, @parts + other.parts)
  else
    Duration.new(value + other, @parts + [[:seconds, other]])
  end
end
-(other) click to toggle source

Subtracts another Duration or a Numeric from this Duration. Numeric values are treated as seconds.

# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 33
def -(other)
  self + (-other)
end
==(other) click to toggle source

Returns true if other is also a Duration instance with the same value, or if other == value.

# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 52
def ==(other)
  if Duration === other
    other.value == value
  else
    other == value
  end
end
ago(time = ::Time.current) click to toggle source

Calculates a new Time or Date that is as far in the past as this Duration represents.

# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 117
def ago(time = ::Time.current)
  sum(-1, time)
end
Also aliased as: until
eql?(other) click to toggle source

Returns true if other is also a Duration instance, which has the same parts as this one.

# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 94
def eql?(other)
  Duration === other && other.value.eql?(value)
end
from_now(time = ::Time.current)
Alias for: since
hash() click to toggle source
# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 98
def hash
  @value.hash
end
iso8601(precision: nil) click to toggle source

Build ISO 8601 Duration string for this duration. The precision parameter can be used to limit seconds' precision of duration.

# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 150
def iso8601(precision: nil)
  ISO8601Serializer.new(self, precision: precision).serialize
end
since(time = ::Time.current) click to toggle source

Calculates a new Time or Date that is as far in the future as this Duration represents.

# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 110
def since(time = ::Time.current)
  sum(1, time)
end
Also aliased as: from_now
to_i() click to toggle source

Returns the number of seconds that this Duration represents.

1.minute.to_i   # => 60
1.hour.to_i     # => 3600
1.day.to_i      # => 86400

Note that this conversion makes some assumptions about the duration of some periods, e.g. months are always 30 days and years are 365.25 days:

# equivalent to 30.days.to_i
1.month.to_i    # => 2592000

# equivalent to 365.25.days.to_i
1.year.to_i     # => 31557600

In such cases, Ruby's core Date and Time should be used for precision date and time arithmetic.

# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 88
def to_i
  @value.to_i
end
to_s() click to toggle source

Returns the amount of seconds a duration covers as a string. For more information check #to_i method.

1.day.to_s # => "86400"
# File lib/active_support/duration.rb, line 64
def to_s
  @value.to_s
end
until(time = ::Time.current)
Alias for: ago